Margaret Aull’s large scale mixed media work, For Fiji, Ever Fiji was purchased for the City Art Collection of Manukau City Council. It was shown in the annual survey exhibition of Fresh Gallery Otara, FRESH09 featuring recent acquisitions and highlights from the 2009 exhibition programme.

Torika’s Kurunavanua photomedia series features in the web-based exhibition, The Other APT curated by Jenny Fraser to respond to the Asia Pacific Triennial taking place at Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, Australia.

Torika Bolatagici‘s photographic work, Protect Me (2009) was donated to the Tautai Trust Tsunami Relief Auction held at Webb’s on Tuesday 20 October. It was sold to a private buyer and 100% of the funds raised were donated to the Samoa Tsunami Relief Fund.

Luisa Tora and Ema Tavola have been invited by the Pacific Research Cluster to speak at An Oceanic Imagination: A Tribute to the Life and Mind of ‘Epeli Hau’ofataking place on Wednesday 21 October at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Our panel is called Visions of building Pacific representations through the Arts.